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The Entrepreneurs Awakening podcast consists of Interviews with CEO's, founders, and solopreneurs who are exploring the frontiers of consciousness and modern business. What is the impact that ayahuasca, vipassana, and other awakening accelerators are having on the performance of these business leaders?Read Less

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S1E3: Top Photographer Warwick Saint Risked Everything to Align with his Truth

Feb 8
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63 minutes

Warwick Saint drank his first cup of ayahuasca in hopes that it would change his life. Only now, six years later has the journey of destruction and rebirth that started that night come to completion.
But why the hell would he want to change his life?
I mean, from the outside looking in, he had it made. He was a top pro sports and celebrity advertising photographer making 7 figures flying around the world doing what he loved most.
Who does Nike hire to shoot the advertising campaign for their new Lebron James shoe? Saint! Who does Jennifer Lopez hire to shoot her full album package and creative? Saint! I’m serious, you have to check out his work on thesaintstudio.com, it’s just ridiculous.
By all accounts, Saint had created the life of his dreams. Oh and, Best of all he had a loving wife and a 2-year-old son who he truly adored.
Yet just beneath the surface, Saint knew that something was off. While his ego was happy, his soul was not. He knew that he was not living his truth, but didn’t know what exactly his truth was, let alone how to align with it. Eventually, a time came when he could no longer ignore his inner voice. Saint signed up for my Ayahuasca mastermind program in hopes that it would provide the life aligning clarity he was seeking.
To his surprise, his first night with ayahuasca was, quote, “the worst experience of my life.” It left him feeling shell shocked and with no discernable insights. The only clarity it did provide was how much he missed his wife and son.
To our surprise, he left the program two days later and flew home to be with them. Little did HE know, that that was the first step on an epic death and rebirth journey that would utterly transform every aspect of his life, for the better, forever.
In this interview Saint shares how to know if you are ripe for a mid-life awakening, and once it’s initiated how to source power from your truth to stay the course even when everyone believes you are crazy.
Is he crazy?
Let’s dive in.
Table of Contents
3:55 Saint shares how great his life was leading up to his awakening.
9:06 Saint realizes that he was living a life that others expected of him, not the one true to his nature.
9:33 How to know if you are living a life not true to yourself. (Resentment, victim mindset, incongruent behavior, double life, cheating on your partner.) “If your head, heart, and cock are not in alignment, then you are out of alignment.”
12:56 Why when living a double standard and believing that you are protecting others from being hurt you are only cheating yourself and your loved ones.
16:04 Motorboat vs sailboat metaphor to illustrate the difference between living in a flow state vs living a forced life.
19:20 Saint describes his first ayahuasca experience after sharing about his first 5-MeO-DMT experience. “It was the worst experience of my life.”
23:22 Saint shares the benefits of his experiencing
26:52 Why it’s a mistake to try to make meaning from your ayahuasca experience rather than observe what unfolds after.
29:53 “Your experience while on ayahuasca is not nearly as important as the impact on your life, and there is often no correlation. A horrible experience may have a bigger experience than a profound one.”
32:28 Saint makes his first congruent decision – to leave Peru early and go home to his wife and son. Saint describes the 6-year process of realignment which includes divorcing his wife, moving to LA from NYC, falling in love and choosing a new career direction. It culminates with his now former wife joining him and his new life partner for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Impressive especially considering that the divorce was not amicable. Saint explains how he divorced his wife and re-aligned his life and all the while kept his heart open to her and owning the impact of his actions. As a result, 6 years later, they are friends and solid co-parents.
46:00 Saint reflects on how that one ayahuasca night opened the psychological and emotional space he needed to be able to initiate and complete his life realignment with integrity.
49:00 We discuss the difference between the impact of smoked DMT and ayahuasca.
50:27 Saint describes what changed in his professional life as a result of his awakening. Saint talks about his new creative focus – intimate love story portraits for inspiring clients including PayPal’s Kimbal Musk and Google’s Sergey Brin. He goes deep into the new intentions behind his photography and how he sees these new type of lover portraits having a positive impact on the world.

Warwick Saint drank his first cup of ayahuasca in hopes that it would change his life. Only now, six years later has the journey of destruction and rebirth that started that night come to completion.
But why the hell would he want to change his life?
I mean, from the outside looking in, he had it made. He was a top pro sports and celebrity advertising photographer making 7 figures flying around the world doing what he loved most.
Who does Nike hire to shoot the advertising campaign for their new Lebron James shoe? Saint! Who does Jennifer Lopez hire to shoot her full album package and creative? Saint! I’m serious, you have to check out his work on thesaintstudio.com, it’s just ridiculous.
By all accounts, Saint had created the life of his dreams. Oh and, Best of all he had a loving wife and a 2-year-old son who he truly adored.
Yet just beneath the surface, Saint knew that something was off. While his ego was happy, his soul was not. He knew that he was not living his truth, but didn’t know what exactly his truth was, let alone how to align with it. Eventually, a time came when he could no longer ignore his inner voice. Saint signed up for my Ayahuasca mastermind program in hopes that it would provide the life aligning clarity he was seeking.
To his surprise, his first night with ayahuasca was, quote, “the worst experience of my life.” It left him feeling shell shocked and with no discernable insights. The only clarity it did provide was how much he missed his wife and son.
To our surprise, he left the program two days later and flew home to be with them. Little did HE know, that that was the first step on an epic death and rebirth journey that would utterly transform every aspect of his life, for the better, forever.
In this interview Saint shares how to know if you are ripe for a mid-life awakening, and once it’s initiated how to source power from your truth to stay the course even when everyone believes you are crazy.
Is he crazy?
Let’s dive in.
Table of Contents
3:55 Saint shares how great his life was leading up to his awakening.
9:06 Saint realizes that he was living a life that others expected of him, not the one true to his nature.
9:33 How to know if you are living a life not true to yourself. (Resentment, victim mindset, incongruent behavior, double life, cheating on your partner.) “If your head, heart, and cock are not in alignment, then you are out of alignment.”
12:56 Why when living a double standard and believing that you are protecting others from being hurt you are only cheating yourself and your loved ones.
16:04 Motorboat vs sailboat metaphor to illustrate the difference between living in a flow state vs living a forced life.
19:20 Saint describes his first ayahuasca experience after sharing about his first 5-MeO-DMT experience. “It was the worst experience of my life.”
23:22 Saint shares the benefits of his experiencing
26:52 Why it’s a mistake to try to make meaning from your ayahuasca experience rather than observe what unfolds after.
29:53 “Your experience while on ayahuasca is not nearly as important as the impact on your life, and there is often no correlation. A horrible experience may have a bigger experience than a profound one.”
32:28 Saint makes his first congruent decision – to leave Peru early and go home to his wife and son. Saint describes the 6-year process of realignment which includes divorcing his wife, moving to LA from NYC, falling in love and choosing a new career direction. It culminates with his now former wife joining him and his new life partner for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Impressive especially considering that the divorce was not amicable. Saint explains how he divorced his wife and re-aligned his life and all the while kept his heart open to her and owning the impact of his actions. As a result, 6 years later, they are friends and solid co-parents.
46:00 Saint reflects on how that one ayahuasca night opened the psychological and emotional space he needed to be able to initiate and complete his life realignment with integrity.
49:00 We discuss the difference between the impact of smoked DMT and ayahuasca.
50:27 Saint describes what changed in his professional life as a result of his awakening. Saint talks about his new creative focus – intimate love story portraits for inspiring clients including PayPal’s Kimbal Musk and Google’s Sergey Brin. He goes deep into the new intentions behind his photography and how he sees these new type of lover portraits having a positive impact on the world.